Stephan Blumenfeld

Stephan Blumenfeld (6 May 1900-10 July 1950) was the Gauleiter of Vaukavysk, Belarus under Nazi Germany.

Biography
Stephan Blumenfeld was born on 6 May 1900 in Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the German Empire. Blumenfeld joined the Mecklenburgian Army in 1918 in the last year of World War I and served on the Western Front against France. After the war, Blumenfeld became a lawyer and was appointed the Gauleiter of Vaukavysk in Belarus in the occupied Soviet Union in 1942 by Nazi Germany. Blumenfeld was tasked with the killing of Jews (Vaukavysk had a high Jewish population), Slavs, and other undesirables. Blumenfeld was captured by the Red Army in 1945 and in 1950 he was sentenced to death by hanging.